Carry on neutering…as many street animals as you can

We are deeply saddened by this news: https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2025/04/30/negeri-sembilan-to-cull-stray-dogs-in-malay-majority-areas

According to the above news report, the state assembly has unanimously agreed that some stray dogs in predominantly Malay-Muslim residential areas should be culled to address safety concerns.

This means not even one single ADUN voted with compassion for the street dogs? Not even a single human in the state assembly suggested trying a different way, ie. to neuter the dogs instead of resorting to killing them?

The even sadder part is that a ruling government ADUN has asked for the same to be extended to non-Malay areas.

Isn’t it extremely disappointing that elected “leaders” in the government use killing as their only means to address an issue? If people were to look up to such “leaders” to set an example, what kind of culture and society do we expect to get?

Enough said about this government and its politicians. The fact remains that politicians make the laws and it is only they who can change the laws. They have been catching-and-killing for decades – does this method work? It doesn’t, and yet they want to keep doing it.

There is nothing we can do on this front because they are the law-makers. Talk to the politicians? Been there, done that, in our early years and learnt that it is a waste of time.

Animals don’t vote. Street animal lovers and sympathisers are the minority of the population – this is the culture in this country. Vote wisely, but we will always be the minority.

So while we await for better days and better leaders (in other words, keep dreaming), what we can do is to keep neutering street animals, as many as we can.

For every street animal neutered, hundreds and thousands are prevented from being born to suffer on the street and suffer under these laws and by-laws that do not value their lives.

We offer our Neutering Aid Package for anyone who wants to get street animals neutered as long as you continue looking after the animals after that.

You’ll understand why this long-term caring is important. For those who only neuter and release without continuing to care for the animals, your animals might just wander off and get captured by the authorities again.

And you’ll understand why the ear-notching is so important. We have been chastised by applicants who say ear-notching is cruel. It isn’t when you know of cases whereby an already-spayed female animal is brought to the vet to be spayed again only for the vet to open her up under anaesthesia to find that she had already been previously spayed. Going under general anaesthesia unnecessarily is uncalled-for. The ear-notch saves lives.

So, whatever the government and its politicians want to do, that’s beyond us.

Keep calm and carrying on neutering as many street animals as you can.

Every street animal neutered is many, many lives prevented from being born to suffer on the street. This is an indisputable fact.